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Thank you very much for the reply. I followed those steps, shutdown and restarted and nothing changed.

When you export, do you get full book names?

Yes, and I can change it at will without a restart.

I suspect your problem may depend on where you're exporting from. Try right clicking in the Search Window, select Copy Format Options and work through each set of options. Somewhere among them you'll have Use User Defined Book Names checked where you want it unchecked.

I could go through and modify the book name export field for each book however, I am guessing that there must be some other way to do it. Especially since it is working for you and you didn't rename all the books in your "book names" file.

Any way, thanks for your help. I guess I will just keep messing with things unitl I find something out.

How I resolved this

I tried that as well. For me it makes no difference either way to my exported text.

Thanks for helping me with this. Maybe one of the BW support team will know what's going on. I am also going to read throught the help file more carefully and see if I can find something I missed.

If I ever figure out what is going on I will post it.

I know this is an old thread, but someone may still need the resolution. I tried every solution offered here without success. I finally found something that worked. I edited the books.bna file and replaced every abbreviated book name with the full one. For example, the file lists the following:
Gen, Genesis, Gen., Gen, Genesis, Gn, 1mo

I changed Gen. to Genesis. Then I enabled user defined books. Now when I export, it copies the full book name and not the abbreviated version.

Here is a quick way of editing the file. Since this is just a comma delimited file, I changed books.bna to books.csv and then opened with excel. I copied the full book names to the field with the abbreviated names. If you use this option, don't copy the whole column, since this will over right things at the bottom of the file. Only copy the cells that have the full Bible book names. Save the file, then rename back to books.bna. Then you are done.

thanks

Originally Posted by gesnipes

I know this is an old thread, but someone may still need the resolution. I tried every solution offered here without success. I finally found something that worked. I edited the books.bna file and replaced every abbreviated book name with the full one. For example, the file lists the following:
Gen, Genesis, Gen., Gen, Genesis, Gn, 1mo

I changed Gen. to Genesis. Then I enabled user defined books. Now when I export, it copies the full book name and not the abbreviated version.

Here is a quick way of editing the file. Since this is just a comma delimited file, I changed books.bna to books.csv and then opened with excel. I copied the full book names to the field with the abbreviated names. If you use this option, don't copy the whole column, since this will over right things at the bottom of the file. Only copy the cells that have the full Bible book names. Save the file, then rename back to books.bna. Then you are done.